An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds (Records of Western Civilization Series)

Nicholas, Nick und George Baloglou:

ISBN 10: 023112760X / ISBN 13: 9780231127608

Published by Columbia University Press, 2003

About this Item

XV, 557 pages Hardcover, original cardboard cover in good condition. Exterior with only minimal signs of storage or wear, interior flawless. Please see our pictures. Hardcover, original Pappeinband in gutem Zustand. Außen mit nur minimalen Lager- oder Gebrauchspuren, innen tadellos. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder. PO-78 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 895.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds (Records of Western Civilization Series)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023112760X
• ISBN 13: 9780231127608
• Binding: 23,5 x 16 cm
• Edition: Bilingual.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 895 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

About this title

Synopsis

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium, this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document, one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm, the story describes a convention of animals in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others, resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors provide extensive textual analysis and notes on the form, style, and context of the poem.

About the Author

Nick Nicholas is a research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project at the University of California, Irvine.George Baloglou is an associate professor of mathematics at the State University of New York, Oswego.